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PRESENTATION TO CEDEFOP, THESSALONIKI, GREECE
THE LIMITS OF OFFICIAL LMI How to find out what the government doesn’t know (and make some meaningful use of all of this information). Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education, University of Derby
What can we know?
• The labour market is a complex (what Pryor and Bright* would call a chaotic) system.
• We can never really know what is going on.
• But we can discern patterns that can serve as a basis for action.
• Simplification of a complex pattern can provide us with misleading insights.
See Pryor, R. and Bright, J. (2011). The Chaos Theory of Careers. London: Routledge.
What does the government know about work…
Quite a lot…. e.g. This is clearly essential information to underpin career building. But it also has limitations. 1. It is partial and
largely historical.
2. It is difficult for individuals to use.
3. It doesn’t link through to actual jobs.
The Labour Market - What is actually happening
Purposeful recording e.g. government
research
Individuals
Intermediaries
‘Natural’ recording e.g. listings on jobs
boards
(Online) Tools
Employers Learning and skills providers Policy makers
Anecdote Soft synthesis e.g. news
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Natural recording: Aggregating
http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/top-30-skills-chart
http://wheretheworkis.org/
http://burning-glass.com/
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Problems with expanding LMI
• Information overload
• What information is trusted?
• Behavioural difficulties
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Behavioural difficulties
System 1 – ‘going with your gut’ Fast, intuitive, powerful decision making.
System 2 – ‘thinking it through’ Slow, clunky decision making for dealing with unusual problems
Responses to these problems
Developing the chooser
The tour guide approach Changing the ‘choice architecture’
gets LMI used.
The map making approach Developing the chooser’s career
management skills allow more profound use of LMI.
* See Gale and Parker (2015) for more on this metaphor
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Developing map making
• LMI is complex and contestable. • Learning to read LMI is about reading
complex patterns. • This is a CMS skill which needs to be
taught. • This can improve our system 1 thinking. • The development of these CMS is a key
role for careers professionals.
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References
Bimrose et al. (2015). LMI for All Developing a Careers LMI Database: Final Report (02/07/15). London: UKCES. Gale, T. and Parker, S. (2015). To aspire: a systematic reflection on understanding aspirations in higher education. The Australian Educational Researcher, 42(2), 139-153. Kahnemann, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. London: Penguin. Pryor, R. and Bright, J. (2011). The Chaos Theory of Careers. London: Routledge.
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Conclusions
• Official government produced LMI is only one way that we can come to understand the labour market.
• Like other sources of information about the labour market it has strengths and weaknesses.
• Taken together these sources can help us to ascertain patterns in the labour market.
• Much of what we know about how individuals engage with career decision making suggests that the provision of LMI alone is unlikely to be impactful.
• There are some advantages to tour guiding people through LMI, but ultimately we need to give them a map.
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Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe Blog at http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com
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